The Portrait

When Lake Bluff ’s Nicole Quick was offered the chance to live abroad, she jumped at the opportunity to experience new people and cultures with her family in tow. After stops in Sweden and Singapore, Quick and her husband returned to her hometown to raise their three boys—not far from her parents—where you will find

Growing up in a David Adler landmark in Lake Forest, it’s not surprising the Miranda Luce (now Maxfield) has a passion for antiques and fine interiors. In addition to meeting people and visiting beautiful homes all over Chicago and the North Shore, one of the things she loves about her role as a Senior Manager

Sixteen years ago, Molly Harper and her husband Brad decided to make Lake Bluff their home. Today, as the busy mom to three teenagers— Jackson, Reese, and Brady—Molly can’t imagine her life anywhere else. Fitness has long been a passion of Molly’s—26 years to be exact—having been an aerobics instructor while in college and a

Megan Cooper was born and raised in the Bay Area, but a twist of fate landed her on the North Shore. She studied anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and while there met her Winnetka native husband Eric, who she says was “probably one of eight non-Californians, and I just happened to fall

When North Shore native Jessica Margot chose to move to Lake Forest with her young family about a decade ago, she was charmed by the community and all it had to offer. What she could not have known then was that a few major life changes were going to launch her to the place where

Joi Hunt has long been an engaged citizen of the world, eager to find beauty in the most ordinary moments and calm in a sea of chaos. So when this wife, mother, and acclaimed professional calligrapher was helping her Lake Forest family cope with the stress of the pandemic lockdown, she reflected on an experience